Notimetoride
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As per title. In this day and age, where convenience is key, it is better to have horse on the doorstep, with poor facilities, or 20 mins away with cracking facilities ?
For me 8 miles is nothing if I get fabulous hacking. Is it too far for you?Thank you all. So is 8 miles too far to travel ( it is vaguely in the direction of work) for fabulous facilities and hacking, when currently yard is 1.5 miles from home (with poor facilities)
Both are important to me! Luckily I have found the perfect yard with amazing facilities. I made suggestions to our lovely yard owners and they followed them as yard only had stables and grazing when I moved just over two years ago. Mine are both on DIY so I like having them close as I need to do them twice a day. However, most people at our yard are at least five miles away and one person is even around 12 miles away but they all love our facilities and have decided that facilities and friendliness at our yard outweigh the distance! Most people at our yard swap favours and only come up once a day. I always do a quick head count and walk round when I'm up too! I couldn't be on a yard with no facilities as I need an arena to school and jump in especially in the winter as I ride six times a week and compete. So, I would have to go for facilities over distance as long as they had someone I trusted to turn out etc so that I only went up once a day. I guess I would also pay for extras like mucking out, poo picking so I had time to ride! What is the point in having a horse and having no time to ride! In your situation, I would move to yard 20 mins away with good facilities as long as there is someone there that you trust that would help you out with turn out etc. That would save you time and petrol money!As per title. In this day and age, where convenience is key, it is better to have horse on the doorstep, with poor facilities, or 20 mins away with cracking facilities ?